Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Michael Bloomberg

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat

Roy Blount, Jr.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Spike Jonze

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell L. Willkie

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Charles Lamb

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Marilyn Hacker

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

Anthony Liccione

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Bob Ney

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Georg Cantor

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden